Cargill Meat Solutions said Thursday it tried to resolve a workplace prayer dispute with Somali workers at a Colorado meatpacking plant that led to the firing of about 190 employees.
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They allege that bosses at Cargill Meat Solutions won’t allow them to pray. The company told them they couldn’t, because it would stop production.
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CAIR said it is continuing to work with Cargill and the terminated employees to get them back to work.
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Jaylani Hussein, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights group that is representing more than 100 of the workers in the dispute, claims that the workers were told on December 18: “If you want to pray, go home”.
“The law requires an employer to reasonably accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs or practices, unless doing so would cause more than a minimal burden on the operations of the business”, according to the news outlet. On Tuesday they were informed they were all fired.
Meanwhile, Mike Martin, a spokesman for Minneapolis-based Cargill, denied any changes in policy on their part, saying that since 2009 the Fort Morgan plant has designated an on-site “reflection area” for people of all faiths. The company, which has provided a non-denominational prayer room, told employees they could take prayer breaks two at a time. So, it is almost impossible to accomodate approximately 200 Muslims who desire to take prayer breaks simaltaneouly at unexpected times.
Meanwhile, the company said that its policy on accommodating prayer in the workplace had not changed. Although the workers were initially using time from their 30-minute, unpaid lunch breaks, that time frame definitely isn’t enough time for prayer based on the time they would need for 10-minute prayer blocks.
Furthermore, Cargill has a policy that states any employees who are fired cannot reapply for a job for at least six months. “It’s like losing a blessing from God”.
He explained that officials with the company said it was over a ‘no call, no show, walk out’.
“It’s got things to do with Donald Trump, it’s got things to do with (Ben) Carson and all these guys who are rhetorically talking bad about Islam”, said Ducaale, a school district employee. Cargill also said while reasonable efforts are made to accommodate employees, accommodation is not guaranteed every day and depends on changing factors in the plant.
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Before the walkout, Cargill employed roughly 600 Somali workers at the Fort Morgan plant. “Unfortunately, in this plant, it seem there have been some abuse and some sort of policy that has been applied in so many different ways”.
